Scott Dochterman

Attorneys representing more than two dozen Iowa and Iowa State athletes have filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court nearly a year after a state law enforcement agency used to access gambling information by more than 40 athletes and hundreds of students at both campuses. Advertisement The six-count, 47-page lawsuit filed in the Southern District of Iowa in Des Moines accuses Iowa’s Division of Criminal Investigation of violating the athletes’ civil rights and conducting an unreasonable s…

IOWA CITY, Iowa — At the Iowa football facility, a place he considered a second home for six years, defensive tackle Noah Shannon left a secured hallway for the public foyer after his pro day workout concluded in March. Shannon had spent the previous three hours at the most important job interview of his life. The workouts had gone perfectly, especially with sizzling times in the shuttle (4.22 seconds) and 3-cone (7.0 seconds) drills. He stayed afterward to answer questions from NFL scouts about…

Longtime Big 12 rivals and will open the 2025 season in Dublin, Ireland in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. The game kicks off Aug. 23 and marks the first time Iowa State will play outside of the United States and just the second time for Kansas State. The Wildcats faced in Tokyo, Japan, on Dec. 5, 1992. Advertisement The 2025 season will be the sixth college football game ever played at Dublin’s 48,000-seat Aviva Stadium. It’s the first time two Big 12 Conference teams will meet in I…

College football’s transfer portal opens again on Tuesday and closes on April 30, giving players the option to find new landing spots and teams the chance to shore up any personnel deficiencies for the fall. As of Sunday morning, the 18 Big Ten schools had 299 football players enter the portal during the previous cycle, according to player entries compiled by On3 and totaled by The Athletic. These numbers reflect the 2023-24 cycle that began Dec. 4, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2024, and extends throu…

Former Iowa forward , son of men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery, has committed to playing his final collegiate season at Butler, he announced on Instagram on Saturday. McCaffery, 6-foot-9, played five seasons at Iowa with 61 starts in 123 games and totaled 1,044 points in his career. Health derailed him at times at Iowa, in part because of his thyroid cancer diagnosis in 2014. He medically redshirted his 2019-20 freshman year after lingering effects from medication related to cancer. In earl…

With College Football Playoff expansion and men’s basketball tournament rights totaling $2.4 billion annually and women’s basketball’s most marketable player in history — Iowa’s Caitlin Clark — launching her sport to unprecedented television viewership, collegiate sports appear healthy, vibrant and lucrative. That goes for everyone except the participants. Advertisement Questions are brewing from college officials to legal scholars about whether athletes should receive a piece of the postseason…

CLEVELAND — From the moment football lost to on Oct. 21 through an announcement that offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz would not return, then-interim athletics director Beth Goetz received 67 emails either calling for her to fire the head coach’s son or responding to her decision. The Athletic obtained those emails and fan vitriol was overwhelming in the Hawkeyes’ first home loss to the Gophers in 24 years. Iowa’s offense was the worst in the nation for two consecutive seasons and against Mi…

CLEVELAND — Ten hours before ’s women’s basketball team faced in the NCAA Final Four, new athletics director Beth Goetz was helping to prepare the next generation of women’s coaches. Goetz, 49, served on a panel offering advice to newly hired coaches. She once was in their position as a young soccer coach after graduating from . This is her way of giving back. But it didn’t distract her from what would take place on Friday evening — Advertisement In one of the most impactful eras in collegiate…

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The NFL Draft begins in four weeks, and it’s likely will celebrate its 14th first-round selection and seventh since 2019 under coach Kirk Ferentz. Cooper DeJean, who left school after his junior season, should become the first Iowa defensive back taken in Round 1 since Tom Knight in 1997 and just the third overall. Despite Iowa’s tradition of sending defensive backs to the — DeJean will make it 19 under defensive coordinator/DBs coach Phil Parker — it seems like a head scratc…

The Athletic has live coverage of in the matchup. star was among the 14 players selected for Team USA’s training camp roster in Cleveland on April 3-5, USA Basketball announced Thursday. Clark could participate if she doesn’t advance to the Final Four, which is held in Cleveland concurrently with the USA training camp. Advertisement has earned three gold medals with USA Basketball junior national teams, most recently on the 2021 USA Women’s U19 National Team. She averaged a team-high 14.3 point…

The Athletic has live coverage of in the matchup. IOWA CITY, Iowa — On any given game day inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena, black-and-gold T-shirts for nearly every Iowa women’s basketball player are as visible as the No. 22 that reigns supreme throughout the college sports landscape. Advertisement Midwest T-shirt company RayGun mass produces athlete-specific apparel, but it doesn’t touch superstar — except for her “Damn It” quip that got her T’ed up last season. Arguably, no collegiate athlete has…

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The idea of Iowa native playing football for the University of Iowa was stronger than the reality. The five-star offensive tackle, who joined the after one season at Alabama, told Iowa he will leave the program, coach Kirk Ferentz said in a statment Tuesday. Iowa opens spring football practice on Wednesday. Proctor, who went on spring break last week with several former teammates, will return to Tuscaloosa, he told On3. Advertisement “It is unfortunate that Kadyn has informe…

Iowa women’s basketball fans scooped up every ticket to the NCAA Tournament’s first and second rounds at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in just 30 minutes, the school announced Monday morning. The top-seeded will play the winner of and at 3 p.m. ET on Saturday, then, with a win, either or Princeton on Monday. Iowa features reigning national player of the year , who holds the NCAA career scoring record with 3,771 points. Tickets on the secondary market are soaring as well. As of Monday morning, a singl…

IOWA CITY, Iowa — ’s path back to health is nearing its conclusion, and the likely first-round defensive back has set April 15 as his workout day. “I’d say I’m pretty close,” DeJean said at Iowa’s pro day on Monday. “This past couple of weeks is probably the best I’ve felt. So, it’s been ramping up a little bit. So it’s getting exciting for sure just to be the back moving around doing position work, like that. So it’s been good.” DeJean remained on the sidelines for an event that attracted every…

The Athletic has live coverage of in the second round of the . IOWA CITY, Iowa — Standing in front of every seat throughout Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday was a similar story. , the most transcendent figure in modern sports, once again brought out the stars and fans. Advertisement In her final regular-season game in the state she calls home, Clark scored 35 points to surpass “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s career total and become the most prolific scorer in Division I basketball history, men’s or wome…

INDIANAPOLIS — Iowa defensive back is not interested in entertaining the idea that he’s breaking any barriers. He prefers to let the success of his three-year college football career stand for now, then display his athletic prowess for evaluators later this spring. DeJean, who just turned 21, was a consensus first-team All-American and a Nagurski Award finalist as the nation’s top defender last fall. As a starting cornerback, DeJean was named the Big Ten’s defensive back and return specialist…

It has been a while since I’ve put together an Iowa mailbag, mainly because I didn’t want to sift through 100 questions about who the planned to hire as their offensive coordinator. , I figured it’s the right time to answer a few questions. With that introduction, we’ll start right away at offensive coordinator. Note: Submitted questions have been lightly edited for clarity and length. Advertisement What would be considered a successful first year for Lester and the Iowa offense? — John S. For…

INDIANAPOLIS — In an offseason already fluctuating from wild to chaotic off the field, college football was further rocked in January when three coaches departed three College Football Playoff programs in the span of 14 days. ’s Nick Saban, the most decorated college football coach of this generation and arguably the greatest in the sport’s history, stepped aside on Jan. 10. Two days later, Alabama hired ’s Kalen DeBoer as Saban’s replacement. On Jan. 24, Jim Harbaugh left the national champion…

The Big Ten’s record-breaking women’s basketball television ratings have translated to a new attendance record for next month’s Big Ten tournament. Two weeks before the league’s top teams compete at Minneapolis’ Target Center, every session has sold out for the first time, the conference announced Friday. Big Ten officials estimate more than 109,000 fans will attend the seven sessions and shatter the league’s total attendance record of 47,923, which was set last year in Minneapolis. The Confere…

IOWA CITY, Iowa — For a program widely recognized as the ’s “Tight End University,” it may come as a surprise that Iowa football did not sign a four-star player at the position for 12 consecutive years. In the 2012 247Sports Composite rankings, George Kittle was the No. 199 wide receiver. In 2016, T.J. Hockenson was the No. 66-ranked tight end and Noah Fant was the No. 31 weakside defensive end. In 2019, was the No. 55 tight end. Even the next NFL hopeful, current Iowa senior , was a composite…